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Issue: Vol. 222 No. 1: 7 August 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-07
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.222.1.3
Page range: 33–43
Abstract views: 15
PDF downloaded: 1

Epimedium tianmenshanensis (Berberidaceae), a new species from central China

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Utilization, College of Biology and Environmental Science, Jishou University, Jishou, Hunan 416000, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Utilization, College of Biology and Environmental Science, Jishou University, Jishou, Hunan 416000, China Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Berberidaceae China new species Epimedium tianmenshanensis phylogeny Eudicots

Abstract

A distinctive, previously undescribed species of Epimedium (Berberidaceae), which we propose naming E. tianmenshanensis, was found during a floristic survey in Hunan, China. It is similar to E. baojingense and E. franchetii, but has smaller flowers and petals with a short, blunt spur. We determined the phylogenetic position of the new species using DNA sequences of nuclear ITS and two chloroplast regions (atpB-rbcL intergenic spacer and matK). Molecular evidence indicates that E. tianmenshanensis occupies a distinct group related to E. baojingense.